Re: Problems escaping apostrophe, please help

Hi, Friday, June 10, 2005, 12:05:48 AM, you wrote: LL> Hello all, LL> I hope this hasn’t been answered a zillion times already, I've tried LL> everything I know and nothing has worked. The following is the PHP statement LL> and the HTML rendering. The apostrophe is displayed as is and breaks the LL> browser. May be I am wrong but I was under the impression that escaping LL> special characters with one of the these, htmlspecialchars, htmlentities, LL> and addslashes would replace them with encoded (hex?) value so they wont LL> break the browser. But it hasn’t worked that way. I am using LL> charset=iso-8859-1. This is my PHP: LL> === This is the PHP === LL> <li> LL> <a href="#" LL> LL> onclick='document.form1.how.value="<?=htmlentities($row['how'])?>"; LL> LL> document.form1.factor.value="<?=addslashes($row['factor'])?>";document.form1 ..submit();'>><?= addslashes($row['factor'])?> LL> </a> LL> </li> LL> ====== This is the rendering ======= LL> ====== (note the heart's apostrophe breaks IE and firefox) === LL> <li> LL> <a href="#" onclick='document.form1.how.value="Pulmonary edema is LL> a LL> condition in which fluid accumulates in the lungs, usually because the LL> heart's left ventricle does not pump adequately. In cases of severe LL> pulmonary edema, the symptoms will worsen and include A drop in blood LL> pressure resulting in a thready pulse."; LL> document.form1.factor.value="Pulmonary LL> edema";document.form1.submit();'>Pulmonary edema LL> </a> LL> </li> What I do to overcome this is in PHP do: $content = rawurlencode($content); and in the html javascript: unescape("$content"); -- regards, Tom